In other news Starmer moves to a net 24% lead over Johnson in latest Opinium approval ratings
A third of Tory voters disapprove of Starmer compared with three-quarters of LAB voters disapproving of Johnson
The latest Opinium poll carried out before the Cummings lockdown affair came out overnight and the big change has been in the approval ratings of the PM and LOTO. The charts above show the recent trends.
A big development is that for the first time Starmer has moved ahead of Johnson and he’s done it with a spectacular jump in just seven days. Last week he was just behind the PM. This week he is on a net plus 30% while Johnson is on a net 6%. So a gap of 24 points.
This week, of course, has seen the PM u-turn on NHS fees for overseas NHS workers and another lacklustre PMQs.
What’s really interesting in the figures is that Tory voters are viewing the LAB leader far more positively than you normally expect and Starmer only gets 33% of Tories voters disapproving of him which compares with 76% of LAB voters disapproving of Johnson.
Normally you expect to see high levels of disapproval both ways with CON and LAB backers being highly partisan in their view of the opposing leader.
